{"product_id":"classicism-and-christianity-in-late-antique-latin-poetry","title":"Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry","description":"After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In \u003ci\u003eClassicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry,\u003c\/i\u003e Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome’s imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the \"cosmic sense\" of late antiquity, novelty and \u003ci\u003erenouatio\u003c\/i\u003e, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Jeweled Style\u003c\/i\u003e has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219663049048,"sku":"9780520295773","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780520295773_9c9e9188-c8b8-4d5a-a139-bd3aed30f095.jpg?v=1770957023","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/classicism-and-christianity-in-late-antique-latin-poetry","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}